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Author	loewis
Recipients	loewis, pitrou
Date	2008-02-02.01:08:27
SpamBayes Score	0.014888026
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Message-id	<47A3C289.5030805@v.loewis.de>
In-reply-to	<1201900733.41.0.186420604817.issue1995@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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> Perhaps it is broken - it does look rather fragile - but are there any > plans to design a replacement? If people could contribute an ICU wrapper - that would be nice. However, it's unlikely to happen. So I'll rather rewrite _locale to use wchar_t functions, and give up on systems where these are not available, or where wchar_t is not Unicode (not sure how to detect the latter case).

> Perhaps it is broken - it does look rather fragile - but are there any
> plans to design a replacement?

If people could contribute an ICU wrapper - that would be nice. However,
it's unlikely to happen. So I'll rather rewrite _locale to use wchar_t
functions, and give up on systems where these are not available, or
where wchar_t is not Unicode (not sure how to detect the latter case).

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2008-02-02 01:08:28	loewis	set	spambayes_score: 0.014888 -> 0.014888026 recipients: + loewis, pitrou
2008-02-02 01:08:27	loewis	link	issue1995 messages
2008-02-02 01:08:27	loewis	create